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Portrait of Jeff Balser, MD, PhD, wearing glasses, a dark suit, white shirt, and patterned tie.
April 17, 2023

Special message from Dr. Jeff Balser, President and CEO, about public health and gun violence

Portrait of Christianne Roumie, MD, MPH, wearing glasses and a gray blazer with a burgundy collar.
September 10, 2020

Roumie to direct Master of Public Health program

Christianne Roumie, MD, MPH, has been named director of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Master of Public Health program, a two-year interdisciplinary program accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health.

By Jake Lowary
Busy Lower Broadway in downtown Nashville, lined with honky-tonks and colorful music venue signs, including The Second Fiddle and The Stage; traffic and pedestrians fill the street.
May 15, 2020

Q&A: Self-control, choice, fear and desire for normalcy underpin behavior as economy re-opens

Consumer behavior expert, Kelly Goldsmith, PHD, delves into how conflicting motivations – a desire for normalcy and being safe – will play out as the economy begins to re-open in Nashville and Tennessee.

By Holly Fletcher
June 20, 2019

VUMC forms new Center for Improving the Public’s Health Using Informatics (CIPHI)

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is forming a new Center for Improving the Public’s Health Using Informatics (CIPHI, pronounced “Sci Fi”) to be co-directed by Michael Matheny, MD, MS, MPH, and Melissa McPheeters, PhD, MPH.

By Vanderbilt Health News
Black-and-white sketch portrait of a man in a collared shirt, identified in the metadata as Sandro Galea, MD, MPH, DrPH.
January 17, 2019

Public health expert Galea set for Discovery Lecture

Sandro Galea, MD, MPH, DrPH, Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor at Boston University School of Public Health, will deliver the next Flexner Discovery Lecture on Thursday, Jan. 24.

By Leigh MacMillan
August 2, 2018

Grant set to boost patient-centered outcomes research

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has been awarded a five-year federal grant to train investigators in Learning Healthcare Systems research, aimed at improving patient outcomes and the community’s overall health.

By Bill Snyder